A shooting involving “four to five subjects” left a man dead in L.A.’s Gramercy Park neighborhood overnight, according to authorities.
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that gunfire erupted around 11:55 p.m. Friday in the 9800 block of South Van Ness Avenue just north of West Century Boulevard.
“A man went outside to his vehicle [when] four to five subjects approached him and fired rounds,” an LAPD spokesperson said. “He was not struck, but his vehicle was.”
Arriving officers found another man on the ground with gunshot wounds. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced deceased, the spokesperson said.
His name was not revealed, and no information on whether anyone was taken into custody was disclosed. Video posted to the Citizen App shows that police had blocked off an alleyway in the wake of the shooting.
It was not immediately known if the incident was gang-related; however, LAPD says it appears that the man who was fired at but not struck and the man who died did not know each other.
No further details were released, and the scene was still active as of 4 a.m. Saturday.
